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Picked up an old character who needed some love. Collection of old art added to the bottom of the post;

New elf sketches

Colour tests for Ehiya

Ehiya was originally drawn in spring 2008, and I happily plastered em with primary colours – the colours I soon came to hate. But as if that wasn’t enough, the art for Avatar was starting to surface, and later with the movie, well… I didn’t want a turqoise patterned tribal tailed blue narrow elf with black dreads and lots of jewelry. I just feel that spot is taken.

Ehiya is the spouse of another elf, Minhasil (ambassador/spokesperson for the river cleft palace), and is a shaman – which in the Elf context means someone who studies nature, elf “magics” and lore, and functions as a healer. Elves have learned to control the core system, and with enough skill, someone can deliberately affect the core system of another elf to aid them in recovering injury or disease, or rebalance their cores (beyond what they automatically do). It can also be used for bad, of course. Escheran elves have specialized in using their core for powerful bioelectric effects, both to heal, give shock damage or to augment physical abilities. The high surges damage their skin, forming a special toughened skin, usually colourful, in the surge lines. The effects are extremely precise, utilizing the body’s nerves. Other elves use these effects to communicate with electronic equipment, but the voltages are much lower and skin damage doesn’t happen. In a sense, elves have a wireless effect to their nervous system, rather short range, but they can detect electricity near them, and elves will ‘resonate’ with each other like a sixth sense – this is part of their body language, and it communicates approximately on the level of body language.

These two contain nudity.

Interesting to note, the working titles were Siann for Ehiya, where Minhasil was Khan, that must’ve been a title rather than a name. Then I decided elves don’t like royalty.

My androgynes at the time had pretty mannish proportions, wholly due to being drawn that way. I’ve preserved some of that in Ehiya, because ey’s a cerebral person, not a fertile voluptuous mama.